The 1944 movie Gaslight, staring Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, and Charles Boyer, chillingly portrays the concept of gaslighting, which has become common vernacular, particularly in the narcissistic abuse recovery community as well...

There’s no earthly way of knowing/Which direction we are going/There’s no knowing where we’re rowing/Or which way the river’s flowing/Is it raining?/Is it snowing?/Is a hurricane a-blowing?/Not a speck of light is showing/So the danger must be " Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate...

"She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she re-encounters the trauma.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror